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A45143	A modest and peaceable inquiry into the design and nature of some of those historical mistakes that are found in Dr. Stillingfleet's preface to his Unreasonableness of separation wherein the innocency of Protestant dissenters is cleared up and vindicated from the indecent censures of the doctor / by N. B.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Lobb, Stephen, d. 1699.	1681 (1681)	Wing H3694; ESTC R8947	41,612	54

Consciences whereby you do unawares furnish the Jesuit with a strong argument for the necessity of a Ceremony for saith ●ellarmine Ceremonies are a momentous parts of worship because there have been great Dessentions in the Church about Ceremonies which ought not to be about lesser matters 5. You say the Dissenters by their Nonconformity have blasted the Honour of the first Reformation But as this is untrue even so you have by insisting on it unawares advantaged the Papist 1. That the Dissenters do judg honourably of the first Reformation may appear from the account we give of it thus As it must be acknowledged that there were in these Lands many concern'd for a Reformation about Transubstantiation and some other things before Henry the Eighths even so in his time a Reformation of the Hierarchy and Ceremonies began which was carried on by Edward the Sixth that Pious Prince the wonder of his age in whose time although the Reformation went on gloriously yet very slowly because of the many Hindrances were in its way For 1. Many of the Episcopal Clergy being zealous for their old Superstitions yea even the Bishops of London and Winchester did much mischief in impeding the Reformation 2. The generality of the people devoted to the Traditions of their forefathers would rather run the hazard of the loss of their lives than of one ceremony As appears 1. By the many Insurrections and Rebellions in several Counties especially in Cornwall and Devonshire 2. From the great Neglect shewn concerning his Majesties Injunctions and Proclamations Acts of Parliament and divers Letters sent from the Council unto the several Justices of every County for the promoting Reformation 3. The unhappy Divisions between the Kings Vncle the Duke of Sommerset the then Protector and other Lords of the Council To which add 4. The Kings being under age which was abus'd by the Papist and also the shortness of his Reign All which duly weighed it must be consest even by the greatest enemies to our Religion that 't was a wonderful Providence that so great a Progress was made in so short a time Sur●ly 't was Digitus Dei and the Instruments imploy'd in so excellent a work deserve our greatest Praises in that they acted so wisely in the management of the work of Reformation which was carried on thus gradually For 1. Though Tho. Dobb was cast into the Breadstreet Counter where he died for speaking against the Idolatry of the Mass beside one John Hume we find no other Prosecution of Poenal Laws against Protestants But 2. Commissioners were sent out to endeavour a present Reformation as to some Particulars 3. A Parliament call'd for the Repealing some Poenal Statutes Free liberty given publickly to profess the Gospel Many zealous Freachers before Banished Licensed to return and Preach 4. Certain of the most Grave and best Learned Bishops by his Majesties Order assemble at Windsor Castle who did draw up a form of the Administration of the Sacraments which was sent abroad into the several Diocesses about which there arising great Divisions and Schisms among the Episcopal Clergy 5. His Majesty engageth the Bishops c. to compose that Book Entituled A Book of Common-Prayer c. which was approved of and established by the Parliament Yet 6. Though this Service-Book was so admirably well suited to the capacity of the Vulgar who were so zealous for their old Superstitions the People being ignorant made an Insurrection in Devonshire and Cornwall to whom his Majesty in a Letter expresseth himself thus As for the Service in the English Tongue it hath manifest reasons for it And yet perchance it seemeth to you a New Service and indeed is none other but the old the self-same words in English which were in Latin c. Act. Mon. Thus the first Reformers as indeed even so in the apprehension of the Dissenters did their utmost in King Edwards days and in Q. Maries did discover a zeal of doing more might they furvive that Persecution In pursuance of which Resolutions several who either suffer'd under Q. Mary at home or were in exile abroad in Queen Elizabeths time did seriously attempt a further Reformation for their doing which they have been branded as Schismaticks Dividers and promoters of Popish designs by such as will not so far honour the beginnings of King Edwards Reformation by endeavours to promote it All this you know and therefore in obliging all to rest satisfied with a Reformation wrested out of Popish hands in a time of the greatest difficulties which could ●ot then be more than what Popish Bishops such as Bonner and Gardiuer conform'd unto you do greatly advantage the Papal interest by drawing us gradatim from our greater Reformation unto what was carried on in King Edwards days and it may be for the same reason you will perswade us to that of Henry the 8th which is but one step further back and so on But whether you have not offended God in this indecent procedure I leave to your own more serious considerations humbly beseeching you to meditate on those following hints given us by a Reverend Divine of the Church of England Mr. Down who in his Preservative against the contempt of the Ministry expresseth himself thus It is a fearful speech of St. Chrysostom Quis unquam Clericum lapsum panitentem vidit Whoever saw a Minister recover himself after a fall by repentance And indeed it is but seldom seen for the fins that are single in others being double in him and an idle word in anothers mouth being as it were Blasphemy in his God punisheth him more rigorously than he doth others The strongest wine turneth into the sharpest vinegar and the Noblest Angels sinning became the vilest Devils In like manner it is with us Reverend Sir You cannot but be sensible of the dangers we are in of the necessity of Love Peace and Concord among our selves and consequently of the evil tendencies of the method you have taken in the untrue Accusations you have laid in against the innocent Dissenters the mistakes you are guilty of in the prosecuting that your design and the unwary slips that prove advantageous to our common enemy the Papists and in fine of the service this inconsiderable tract may be of in setting you right I say you being sensible of all this my concluding request shall be that you will put the most candid comment on this essay and joyn with me in this Letany From all Factions and Seditions Mischievous Impositions sinful Separations c. Vnjust Censurers and False Accusers Good Lord deliver us I am Your Faithful Servant N. B. ERRATA PAGE 32. line 22. read such Page 33. line 8. read some one Page 34. line 1●… dele by A Modest and Peaceable Inquiry into the Design and Nature of Dr. Stilling fleet 's HISTORICAL MISTAKES c. SUch are the Calamities of the Reformed Churches both at home and abroad so great and so many that it highly concerns all true Protestants to do their

Council did distinguish between the Papists and Dissenters and thereby plainly discover that the Dissenters there were far from carrying on the Popish design as appears by their Letter sent to their Justices on the complaint of the Dissenters made to the Right Honourable Lords of Her Majesties Privy Council A Copy of which Letter sent from the Right Honourable the Lords of Her Majesties Council I will as I find it in a part of the Register insert AFter Our very hearty Commendations whereas we are informed that heretofore at your Assizes in your Circuit divers good Preachers and others Godly disposed have been indicted by colour of Law for things not so much against the matter and very meaning of the Law as in some shew swearving from the Letter thereof Namely for not using the Surpless resorting to Sermons in other Parishes for want at home leaving out some collects on the dayes of Preaching for using private Prayer in their houses and such like All which we suppose cometh to pass by the practice of some Informers not so well disposed in Religion as also of men returned upon great Inquest Many times such as be still in Ignorance cannot broke the Gospel and being in love with the Licence of former times cannot so well indure the present plain Teachers who by laying open their faults would draw them to a more precise and Gospel-like Life These are therefore to require you and heartily to pray you that in every sitting of your Circuit you sift and examine the affection of such Informers touching Religion and thereafter give ear to them As also to have a special regard That the Inquest at large may be Religions wise and Honest And if notwithstanding your diligence in this behalf such Jurours nevertheless creep in as by like information molest good men that yet your speech and whole proceedins against them at the Bar or elsewhere called before you may be according to their quality not watching them at bar or in the inditement with Rogues Fellons or Papists but rather giving apparent note in the Face of the Countrey what difference you hold betwixt Papists dissenting from us in the substance of Faith to God and Loyalty to our Prince and these other men which making some Conscience of these Ceremonies do yet diligently and soundly Preach true Religion and obedience to her Majesly maintaining the Common peace in themselves and in their Auditory so shall the Countrey thereby learn at the Assizes better to reverence the Gospel and love the Ministers and Professors thereof Thus promising our selves thus much at your hands we bid you heartily Farewell From c. Thus you have the sence of Q. Eli. Council and may have the like sence from our Parliament now These things being so let the Impartial Reader judge who it is that hath blasted the Reputation of the first Reformation Whether 1. Those that remained faithful to these Principles of the Martyrs and other Protestant sufferers in Q. Maries dayes or those that receeded from them 2. Those that hazarded the loss of their Liberties and Benefices for the sake of Protestant Principles or those that persecuted the Protestants when the debauched Papists were favoured by them 3. Those that would carry on the Reformation as far as Luther and Calvin and the generality of the first Reformers or those that gratified the Papists by putting a stop to so Gospel-like a procedure reviling Junius and Tremelius as German-Drunkards c. as some of the Episcopal Clergy did in Queen Elizabeths dayes 4. They who acknowledge the Church of Rome to be a true Church having a Ministry rightly i. e. Episcopally ordained when all the Reformed beyond the Seas are reproached for want of it or Those who concur with the Reformed 3. Argument The Dissenters oppose Episcopacy and Innocent Ceremonies notwithstanding their Antiquity 'T is asserted by the Dr. Pref p. 4 5. That when the People find the undoubted practices of the Ancient Church condemned as Popish and Antichristian by their Teachers they must conclude Popery to be of much greater Antiquity then really it is and when they can trace it so very near the Apostles times they will soon believe it setled by the Apostles themselves For it will be very hard to perswade any considering men that the Christian Church should degenerate so soon so unammously so universally as it must do if Episcopal Government and the use of some significant Ceremonies were any parts of that Apostacy Will it not seem strange to them that when some humane policies have preserved their first Constitution so long without any considerable Alteration that the Goverment instituted by Christ and settled by his Apostles should so soon after be changed into another kind and that so easily so insensibly that all the Christian Churches believed they had still the very same Government which the Apostles left e'm Which is a matter so incredible that those who can believe such a part of Popery should prevail so soon in the Christian Church may be brought upon the like Grounds to believe that many others did So mighty a prejudice doth the Principles of our Churches Enemies bring upon the cause of the Reformation I Answer There are these things to be distinctly considered 1. Whether the not embracing the Episcopacy doth any way advantage the Papist 2. Whether there is any such strength to be found in the Drs reasoning First From the Antiquity of Episcopacy And Secondly From the Argument produc'd to prove its Antiquity to wit the Improbability of introducing Episcopacy and Vninstituted Government into the Church without some noise and clamour I say Whether there is any such strength in these reasonings that none can oppose them without giving too great an advantage unto the Papist To the first Namely Whether the non-embracing Episcopacy doth any way advantage the Papist 1. From what hath been already said 'T is sufficiently proved that the non-embracing Episcopacy doth rather prejudice then profit the Papal interest for which Reason 2. When attempts have been made by Francise a Sancta Clara for the accommodating the differences between the Church of Rome and the Church of England he ever with indignation excepts against the Puritane as a people no way reconcileable to their Church yea when he proves it easie to heal the breach between them and the Episcopal Moreover 3. Whoever consults * Becan opus Tit. 10. Calvinistae in Scotia Anglia vocantur Puritani quia puram Calvini Doctrinam per omnia sequuntur Becanus the Jesuite will find how he seems to honour the Church of England by giving credit to the reports they make against the Puritans who are so called by the Jesuit because they embrace the pure Doctrine of Calvine to the end they may thereby from the mouths of some Protestants viz. of the Church of England condemn all the Reformed Churches abroad the Jesuits malice being the more inflam'd to see so many Dissenters in England that justifie the